Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings are

[Guest ensf]

We have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. Users login with a domain

account. Several of our workstations (Windows 2000 Pro SP 4 and some Windows

XP Pro SP2)are logging in to find that their profiles settings are missing.

We do not use roaming profiles. On investigation, I find that under the

C:\<system folder\documents and settings\, a new folder is created with the

name username.domain (i.e., johnsmith.abc.com). The original "username"

folder still exists. I can correct the problem, and I had done that

repeatedly. However, I would like to see if there are any suggestions on

preventing the loss of the profile in the first place. We have hardcoded

speed/duplex on our NICs to see if there is a connectivity issue on system

startup. The event log provides no information that can be investigated on

the KB. Any help would be appreciated.

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings are

 

On a newly-joined-to-the-domain PC if you logon to the pc first, then to the

domain you would end up with two profiles.

%username%

and

%username%.%userdomain%

Else if you logon to the domain first, then to the pc you would end up with

%username%

and

%username%.%computername%

 

The profiles could also be corrupt and or orphaned for other reasons.

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

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"ensf" wrote:

> We have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. Users login with a domain

> account. Several of our workstations (Windows 2000 Pro SP 4 and some

> Windows

> XP Pro SP2)are logging in to find that their profiles settings are

> missing.

> We do not use roaming profiles. On investigation, I find that under the

> C:\<system folder\documents and settings\, a new folder is created with

> the

> name username.domain (i.e., johnsmith.abc.com). The original "username"

> folder still exists. I can correct the problem, and I had done that

> repeatedly. However, I would like to see if there are any suggestions on

> preventing the loss of the profile in the first place. We have hardcoded

> speed/duplex on our NICs to see if there is a connectivity issue on system

> startup. The event log provides no information that can be investigated

> on

> the KB. Any help would be appreciated.

[Guest ensf]

Re: Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings

 

Re: Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings

 

These are computers that have been on the domain for some time and logged on

and off of the domain several times.

 

Are there tips to preventing profile corruption? It seems to be happening

way too often to be consider average. What are the most likely causes(

hardware, Active Directory)?

 

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> On a newly-joined-to-the-domain PC if you logon to the pc first, then to the

> domain you would end up with two profiles.

> %username%

> and

> %username%.%userdomain%

> Else if you logon to the domain first, then to the pc you would end up with

> %username%

> and

> %username%.%computername%

>

> The profiles could also be corrupt and or orphaned for other reasons.

>

>

>

> --

>

> Regards,

>

> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

> Microsoft Certified Professional

> Microsoft MVP [Windows]

> http://www.microsoft.com/protect

>

> "ensf" wrote:

> > We have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain. Users login with a domain

> > account. Several of our workstations (Windows 2000 Pro SP 4 and some

> > Windows

> > XP Pro SP2)are logging in to find that their profiles settings are

> > missing.

> > We do not use roaming profiles. On investigation, I find that under the

> > C:\<system folder\documents and settings\, a new folder is created with

> > the

> > name username.domain (i.e., johnsmith.abc.com). The original "username"

> > folder still exists. I can correct the problem, and I had done that

> > repeatedly. However, I would like to see if there are any suggestions on

> > preventing the loss of the profile in the first place. We have hardcoded

> > speed/duplex on our NICs to see if there is a connectivity issue on system

> > startup. The event log provides no information that can be investigated

> > on

> > the KB. Any help would be appreciated.

>

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings

 

Re: Profile problems.Domain name appended to profile and settings

 

I'd say {software, hardware, things that users} do. In no particular order.

 

You also mentioned;

 

C:\<system folder\documents and settings

 

which leads me to believe these are upgrades from Windows NT. A clean

installation may also help.

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"ensf" wrote:

> These are computers that have been on the domain for some time and logged

> on

> and off of the domain several times.

>

> Are there tips to preventing profile corruption? It seems to be happening

> way too often to be consider average. What are the most likely causes(

> hardware, Active Directory)?